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The Havana-based Center of Biotechnology and Genetics Engineering (CIGB) is producing highly effective antivirals that are being used in the treatment of patients infected with the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in Cuba.

Cuba confirmed its fifth case of Influenza A H1N1 on June 6 after detecting the disease in a 62-year-old Canadian woman, who traveled from Toronto to eastern Santiago de Cuba June 2.

Around 100,000 people in Cuba suffer from Alzheimer''s disease, but the number could double by 2020 if no cure is found for the disease, a medical source.

HIV/AIDS prevalence index in Cuba is among the lowest in the world and the lowest in the Caribbean, Jorge Perez Avila, deputy director of the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK) has reported.

The award was granted for research into and the copyright of a new molecule they developed as a growing immune-stimulant for aquatic organisms, especially fishes and crustaceans

Today, 70 percent of children suffering from leukaemia survive, and those who suffer from sicklemia usually live beyond 50 years of age

The technology is used in only two cities in Latin America —Bogotá and Havana. It is the only technology that can detect virus from different diseases like HIV/Aids during their so-called “window period”

A 14-MONTH-OLD Canadian child who arrived in Cuba from Toronto with his parents became the fourth case of swine flu on the island nation, in addition to three Mexican students, the Health Ministry said.

The Eighth Latin American Congress on Hematology started in Havana with a master lecture on the work Cuba has carried out on hematology over the last 40 years.

Systematic immunization campaigns carried out in Cuba over the past 17 years have allowed the Caribbean nation to reduce the incidence of acute Hepatitis B in more than 99%

The Cuban Public Health Ministry reported on Thursday that two additional cases of Swine Flu A (H1N1) virus were confirmed on the island

Cuba’s achievements in eye prosthesis rehabilitation for children and adults will be presented at the Sixth International Ophthalmology Conference and the Fourteenth National Ophthalmology Conference taking place in Havana from May 11 to 15.

The Sixth International Ophthalmology Conference ongoing in Havana parallel to the Fourteenth Cuban Ophthalmology Conference gave special acknowledgement to Cuba’s success in minimal-access orbital tumor surgery.

The 6th International Congress on Ophthalmology starts Tuesday in Cuba, with the attendance of experts from several countries.

Cuba confirms its 1st swine flu case. Cuba says a Mexican student who came to the island to study is its first confirmed case of swine flu.